The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality is planning to team up with a Newton Park businessman to alleviate the metro's water woes.
Gregory Adams' property sits on the eye of an underground water supply which has replenished several municipal swimming pools this year.
Adams said he discovered the underground water supply three years ago while trying to fill up his own swimming pool on the property.
"To date, we have done over seven million litres since October for the municipal pools and we have done seven to eight pools already," he said.
The metro's Executive Mayor, Athol Trollip, said the municipality is planning on teaming up with Gregory to see if the water can be harvested sustainably for drinking purposes as well.
He said the metro wants to also identify other artesian wells like the one on Adams' property.
"What we have to do here is to try and find out whether this is sustainable, how it can be sustained and how best we can harvest this water. I've drank the water it is absolutely beautiful and tastes no different to the municipal water, in fact, if I could make a judgement call without being prejudicial it tastes fresher. Maybe it is because it's cool and it has just come out of the earth," Trollip said.
Trollip used the opportunity to warn residents and visitors that the Metro is still facing a water crisis and that its main supply dams are currently at less than 30 %.
"So, we are not out of the woods at all but we are very fortunate in that we have a water augmentation plan that comes from the Lesotho highlands.We also looking at augmenting our water by using the boreholes that have already been drilled in the Coega area. We are fortunate, there are some additional resources that we can use but people still really need to understand that, especially during the Summer Season, that we have to use sparingly," he said.
